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entodoays

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From: Malta

Registered: 2014-10-25

Posts: 118

Restart shell in XFCE

In Gnome3 if there are glitches in the desktop, you can run Alt-F2,r and the shell is restarted.

Is there anything similar in XFCE, that is restarting the shell without closing all programs, logging out and in again?

toz

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Registered: 2011-10-28

Posts: 497

Re: Restart shell in XFCE

Xfce is modular so it depends on which module is problematic. Most can be restarted on the fly, however, the session manager (xfce4-session) can not and you need to log out and back in again to restart it.

Desktop = "xfdesktop --reload" or "kill -HUP `pidof xfdesktop`"
Window Manager = "xfwm4 --replace"
Settings Daemon  = "xfsettingsd --replace"
Panel = "xfce4-panel -r"